Insinuate Definition

ĭn-sĭnyo͝o-āt
insinuated, insinuates, insinuating
verb
insinuated, insinuates, insinuating
To express or otherwise convey (a thought, for example) in an indirect or insidious way.
American Heritage
To introduce or work into gradually, indirectly, and artfully.
To insinuate oneself into another's favor.
Webster's New World
To maneuver or insert (oneself) into a place.
American Heritage
To hint or suggest indirectly; imply.
Webster's New World
To make insinuations.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Insinuate

  • Latin īnsinuāre īnsinuāt- in- in in–2 sinuāre to curve (from sinus curve)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”), from in (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”)

    From Wiktionary

Insinuate Sentence Examples

  • Will not be ignoble and say the harsh thing, but only insinuate it.

  • To deem something overpopulated is to insinuate that the additional users somehow lessen the experience for the existing members in one way or another.

  • He felt a slight twinge of guilt about what he 'd had to do to insinuate himself into their midst.

  • But the antinomies, as they appeared in Abelard's treatise, without their solutions, could not but seem to insinuate a deep-laid scepticism with regard to authority.

  • I even insinuate that it is our artificial lighting that is actually rotting the fruit on the tree.

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ETEATE

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